A forum for the discussion of issues concerning the natural environment. ELECTRONIC probes in automatic weather stations officially replaced mercury and alcohol thermometers as the primary measure of surface air temperatures across Australia on 1 November 1996.

Emergent constraints on climate sensitivity in global models. The two strongest potentially credible constraints, and conclusions. A few things that caught my eye this past week. The four constraints that Caldwell assessed as credible.

Dozens of Coins From Final Year of Jewish Revolt Discovered in Ophel Cave. Watch the video to see Dr. Eilat Mazar explain the discovery.

December 26, 2011 by mosomoso. While 1914 was a bad drought year for much of Oz, and hot everywhere, here we were saturated, especially in the crunch month of October. It was followed by the hottest year and second-driest year in our record, the hellish 1915.

The Indians are on the warpath. Something significant happened about two years ago and it was a signal that the times they were a changing. Greenpeace tried to disrupt a Russian drilling platform in the Arctic and the protesters were promptly arrested, with their ship being impounded. Middot; Tagged with Greenpeace. For Hiromi, Tomahara, Satomi, Koji, all the others and of course Kenta.

Incorporating Environmental, Social and Political Objectives in the Millennium Development Goals. Science, Technology and Society Posts. Incorporating Environmental, Social and Political Objectives in the Millennium Development Goals.

THIS IS A STICKY POST DATED EARLY 2012. I try not to treat characters as furniture or mere plot pivots, but they are sketched, rather than painted.

Climate change via the infamous hockey stick. 8220;That big daft one! Will there be further warming? .